TIBVUTROHJEWISBORONICLE PAGE TWO THE SEASON GREETINGS ()R I GIN OF THE FA LASHAS AMERICANIZATION COMMITTEE REPORT I gassgnimmisigunamosmm...munien irmigiimmommemigroar. = By RABBI J. MAX WEIS Secretary of the American Pro-Falash• Committee NATIONAL AMUSEMENT CORPORATION The American (Editor's Note: Pro-Folosha Committee is included in the United Jewi.h l'anipaign for Slrao,000 of the Jewish 1Velfare Federation to open it, Detroit on May 19.) Abyssinia, which Is hailed as the lilt kingdom or empire in Africa to maintain its freedom and Male pendency has 'narked Jewish influ- turn to her .-1frican kingdom. Still another explanation traces them to the It Ten '(riles. Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch, who has spent :10 years among the Fain- shas, disputes the all that the Falashas are native Abyssinians. Ile points to the name, "Falusha," which means "an immigrant," anal Sr substantiates for him the lo•lief The following story is total by Rosen, the German explorer, apro- pos of the efforts the Falashas Mine made to maintain their Juda- ism: Centuries ago the Falashas were given their choice between death or baptism into Christianity. In the face of this ultimatum the Falashas in one of the provinces of Abyssinia fled into the mountains Exclusive Representatives of JEAN GOLDKEITE Orchestras and Attractions • 812.813 BOOK TOWER Phone Cherry 2300 they O'Donnell Turner, exert,- -=-- 5 tive secretary of the Americaniza- t ion Committee of Detroit, makes - public an interesting report of the activities of this committee during L = _- the past year. This report includes =- it statement on the alien free in- = B formation bureaus, employment bureaus, naturalization work, ro — 7: trait public evening schools, etc. EL:7 The report opens with the follow- ing statement : - "Than services rendered by the Ameria•anization Committee of Dan- — = troit to its foreign horn i Hsu acs than from becoming the prey of the exploited and the un- scrupulous. This agency anal the scrupulous. Detroit C.111111tillity lariat which finances its operating deficits and makes it possibly to function. will = long be remembered with affection n-7sa by thousands of aliens, many of them now citizens, for giving them knowledge of what their tirst America meant or could mean to t hem. "The average illiterate or un- eduacted foreign born person must meet more complicated situations than a native born person of equal • M intelligence anal knowledge. This — is due tan the fact that his affairs are, at least until he has been in • America sonata years, subject to the regulations and legal pro•eedure of two countries. "The simple life which the aver- _ age foreign born person lives be- ="-' fore he enters the United States is "1 _ changed in many ways, and to the . bewildered alien, such friendly in- stitutions, as the Alien Free Infor- mationBureaus are haven that give him needed security and John S. HAGGER TY •••• ■ •• ■ ••411 MANUFACTURER OF STOCK & COMMON BRICK 1,11...•• ■■■• 1815 Dime Bank Bldg. Cadillac 9467 DETROIT, MICIIIG.kX r,dimmistestmo to TEACHING FALASHA CHILDREN HEBREW PASSOVER GREETINGS hen at thew friend " =1 1111111111111111111111110 pot that has puz- protection.W rll'W cocas in ninny channels of its life. that they are foreigners or outsid- • and settled inns comer meets one 31 il 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 p for it seems prat- Iv or bureaus a his native tongue and' p Jews who came from the zled exlorers. ere. hr speaks The royal house of A byssinia Desert of the Sudan, from Egypt tically impossible for a human be- he can converse truly on his par- claims descent from Menthe , the and from Arabia, in all likelihood. ing to reach it—it is so thoroughly ticular difficulty, the toy that is • offspring of King Solomon and the It is taut quite certain when the inaccessible. A portion of this par- read on his face, is difficult tan de- Queen of Sheba, of whose visit to Falashas made their eniry into ticular group still exists in that scribe. Jerusalem the Bible speaks. The Abyssinia, or when, if we are to mountainous locality. "This report is written fur the church of the Abyssinians is •on- regard them as native Abyssinians, The Falashas have faced many purpose of tabulating and describ- IIi struct•d like the old temple at Je- they assumed the faith of Judaism. destructive forces during their ing the specific services rendered, rusalem, with an outer and inner Whatever our theory of the Fala- existence in Abyssinia. Many of which have been of such vital im- court, all worshippers standing, shas, it is quite clear that the type them have been sold as slaves into i portance to the alien and which excepting the royal family. The of Judaism observed Icy the Fain- foreign lands. Some have been have contributed much toward than inner court contains a sacred ark, shas antedates the Christian era. won over to Christianity through welfare of America. While figures before which the priests dance, as The Falashas know nothing of the the activities of Christian mission- do not truly measure the success they did in the time of King David. Talmud. They are not familiar aries, and others have lost their any undertaking, they are the Furthermore, no images are per- with the festival of Purim, or the livens in the many religious wars most tangibly measuring rods we mitten(' in the Abyssinian church, ceremony of the phylacteries or between the Abyssinians and the have and therefore, we make use and the New Year of the Ahys.- tephilin. Their sacred book is Falashas, of them. sinions is celebrated in September, written in Gheez, the classical "The increase in the number of Dr. Jacques Faitlovitch enjoys at approximately the same period Abyssinian language. Dr. Faitlo- individuals served and services ' as the Jewish New Year. vitch's explanation of this fact is the confidence of the Negus of given this year is most inspiring in Abyssinia, Tafai Makonen. His Because of this marked Jewish that the Hebrew of the original influence, a modern writer on Jews had town lost, both by the program, sponsored by the Ameri- view of restricted immigration, Abyssinia and the Falashas has of- destruction of the Hebrew books can pro-Falasha committee, seeks thus pointing, tan the far reaching good will directed toward this fered the theory that, at one time, and the neglect of Hebrew as a to win back for the Falashas have been degraded by persecution agency; to the nets] of such serv- all Abyssinia observed Judaism, spoken language. WINDSOR, ONTARIO The Falashas rigidly observe a and the inroads of slavery, thy' ice in a 'World City like Detroit and that the Falashas are the only Specialists in Abyssinians that did not go over rule of non-contact with Chris- benefits of civilization; tan enable and to the adequacy of the ser•- to Christianity. According to this tians. If such contact occurs, the the Falashas to practice their Juda- ices given." Fred M. Butzel is vice-president theory, they are native Abyssin- Falasha takes a ritual bath to ism in the face of the inroads of inns, in no way distinct from the cleanse anal purify himself. In Christian missionary societies; and and treasurer of this committee. peoples about them, except in re- Vienna. during the past summer, I 'to erect schools for the education ligion. Some writers claim that hadthe privilege of meeting my of the women and the girls as well HERRICK SUBSIDIZED the Falashas, like the royal house first Falasha, in the person of a as of the men and the boys, A YIDDISH THEATER of Abyssinia, regard themselves as boy it 15, who is studying to be a through which religious teachers descendants of Mentalik, the son of dentist. When I asked him what will be trained in order to teach NEW YORK.--(J. T. AL—The King Solomon and the Queen of attitude he would take toward their people and to bring their re- late United States ambassador to Sheba. Another report claims that Christian patients, he assured my ligious observance into accord with France, Myron T. Herrick, was re- and the Falashas consider themselves that his point of view was more the Judaism of the modern world. vealed as a patron of (ho Yiddish the offspring of the Jewish retinue modern and that the idea of non- This work among the Falashas is stage in an article published in that King Solomon presented to eontact with Christians was not the only missionary work being the Jewish Morning Journal. The done by Judaism today. the Queen of Sheba upon her re- accepted by him, author, Jacob Kirschbaum, relates that in 1915, following his return nue, New York. Associated with For several years, Mr. Kaufman from Paris, the late Mr. Herrick Mr. Kaufman are Rabbi I. L. Bril, lived in Detroit, where he was con- consented to the proposal of his who is managing editor, and Mor- nected with the Detroit Jewish Jewish friend, the late Ilarry ris Engelman, who is vice-presi- Chronicle, of which his father was Bornstein, who was prominent in the founder. Head. the Jewish Guardian, New dent. political circles in Cleveland, to "ONE OF CANADA'S National Weekly Newspaper. construct a theater for a Yiddish Mr. Kaufman Wa , born in New REALLY FINE HOTELS" TO LECTURE ON SYNAGOGUE group in Cleveland. York. He was brought early in EXCAVATIONS IN PALESTINE UNITED OPERATED Mr. Herrick caused the erection Newark Jewry has given to life to Newark, where he gradu- of a theater at Fifty-fifth street A merican Jewry the youngest Jew- ated from public and high schools MYRON R. GILBERT, Manager JERUSALEM.-- (J. T. A.)— and Woodland avenue, Cleveland. ish publisher in this country. Theo- and then studied in the New Jer- Dr. I.. Sukenik, Field Archaeolo- A Yiddish troupe was taken there lure N. Kaufman, oldest son of s•y Law School. Ile began his gist for the Hebrew University, from New York, with David Levin Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kaufman. The journalistic career at the age of was invited to read a paper at the son as the principal actor. Th elder Mr. Kaufman is the publisher 10 as editor and publisher of a International Archaeological Con- enterprise did not meet with sue of the Newark Jewish Chronicle. neighborhood paper called the Wee gress which will take place in Iler- cuss but the actors and anther em Kaufman has become Chronicle. This he followed by Young Mr. player received their full ream- the editor-in-chief of in at the end of April, Dr. Sukenik will describe the neration, the money being fur- 111111111111111111111111011111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111R the publisher of the new national the Jewish The becoming Scroll, then the official organ ===1 . English-Jewish weekly, excavations made nished secretly by the late amts. - latest synagoj.tme • Jeshurun. 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